Browsing by Subject "global river systems"

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    Multidisciplinary Viewpoints on Global River Systems
    (Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2014-04-11) Maxwell, Jeremy; Townsend, Andrew
    In January 2014, 27 scholars from across the disciplines met at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis for the Rivers of the Anthropocene conference to present their research on global river systems. While they were here, we interviewed eleven of them about the methodological and conceptual challenges of transdisciplinary approaches to environmental research. In our paper, we synthesize those interviews into an accessible report detailing the presenters’ responses. The sources of information that we use are the interviews themselves, which we cross-reference with the recorded presentations from the Rivers conference, as well as published work on transdisciplinarity. This research is important because it shows how studying the effects humans have had on global river systems from a multidisciplinary angle gives us, as a society, a better idea of how to address the problems caused by human alterations to the natural environment.
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    Rivers of the Anthropocene
    (Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2015-04-17) Kelly, Jason M.
    Rivers of the Anthropocene is a transdisciplinary project examining global river systems since 1750. Approaching rivers and their landscapes not simply as natural phenomena but as human-nature entanglements, an international network of researchers, policy makers, artists, teachers, and community organizations seek to create a new framework for understanding and addressing one of the most pressing ecological issues of the 21st century: water security